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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston During the 75th Golden Globes Awards this year, Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. de Mille award for outstanding achievement in …

Just over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. His words and work stand steadfast today, leaving a legacy of a nation changed …

“Hey Mom, you need to write about your running,” said my 10-year-old son. “Tell people why you run so much.” We were walking home from church, kicking ice balls down the sidewalk. I shivered a little harder. My son had …

How do I encourage patience in an instant gratification world? IN OUR OFFICES, we hear the term “instant gratification” a lot. Sometimes it is used to describe an individual: “Megan is driving me crazy about getting the new iPhone,” and …

My world has shrunk. My days revolve around her tiny cries and constant need for food and attention. We sleep a little, eat and then repeat. I would not have it any other way. The first time I gave birth …

Recently, CNN’s coverage of a tragic shooting was suddenly interrupted … by another tragic shooting. Sometimes it seems that violence and tragedies are happening so fast that even 24-hour news networks can’t keep up. Interestingly, the data shows that the …

I really didn’t know what it was like to suffer from heart break until I was in my mid to late-twenties. Sure, life hadn’t been perfect before then — I had felt pain before. But this was different. This was a kind …

I was a history major in college. The way the world has arrived at the place it is now, the causes and effects, the victors and the victims, the passive people and the active, their environments and thoughts and words, …